Well... I found a fix for the problem, but I am still unsure of what the problem was to begin with... I found that mythfrontend was launching xine with the following command:<br><br>sh -c xine -pfhq --no-splash <path to video file>
<br><br>and was able to reproduce the problem from the command line. The title bar for xine displayed that there was "no mrl found". The only change that I made was to include the full path to xine on the player command line in the settings...
i.e. "/usr/bin/xine -pfhq --no-splash %s" and all is well again.<br><br>Anyway, I am still baffled as to how this problem came about because I have only one instance of xine on the system, and it is in the PATH, but I figured I would post this to the list in case anyone else came across this problem as well.
<br><br>Dave<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Captain Krypto</b> <<a href="mailto:captainkrypto@gmail.com">captainkrypto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="direction: ltr;">I read a post on the dev list that says mythvideo shells out to the
external player...
(<a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/135931" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/135931</a>). Does
any one have any idea how this is done?... it seems that if I
could figure out how mythvideo is executing xine, I would be a
step closer to solving my problem.</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10a8565566904ffa_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Captain Krypto</b> <<a href="mailto:captainkrypto@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
captainkrypto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="direction: ltr;">Thanks for the reply Warren. That was my first thought as
well. The directory from which mythvideo reads the file is
actually a mount to the backend system. To be absoultly sure, I
ran a "chmod -R 777" on the entire mounted directory and still had the
problem. I did forget to mention that I am able to watch videos
though mythvideo using the default mplayer command... I was getting
some audio/video sync issues with mplayer that aren't present with
xine. Xine runs fine when launching from the command
line... so, is there another layer between xine and mythtv?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Dave</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Warren</b> <<a href="mailto:warren-lists@icruise.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
warren-lists@icruise.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Captain Krypto wrote:
<blockquote cite="http://mid8430038e0604100955w2aa5fa9cj2a601c5e909e0938@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"></blockquote></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span>Hello all,<br>
<br>
I had xine successfully working in MythVideo, but now it stopped
working. When I try to launch a movie through MythVideo I get the xine
splash screen and the following output in the mythfrontend log:<br>
<br>
sh: line 1: <path to avi file>: Permission denied<br>
<br>
I am using the command "xine -pfhq --no-splash %s" in the set up
section. If I use that same command from the command line, everything
works as expected. (
i.e. xine launches with the arguments and play the video) I've tried
numerous videos and all have the same result. I haven't made any
updates to the system since it was working and I know that the working
setup had survived a few reboots. I am using a PVR-350 for TV out, but
since I can see the xine splash screen, it doesn't look like that
figures into the equation and since I get the same behavior when
launching mythfront from the command line on my desktop. I was hoping
that someone had run into this problems before, or could give me some
pointers to troubleshoot it further. Also, how does mythvideo handle
external video players? It looks like from the error, that xine is
launched through mythvideo via some sort of shell script... is that
correct? Any input it appreciated.
<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Dave<br>
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Sounds like the file is owned by whomever you are logged in as when you
are running from the command line but not the user that mythvideo is
running as and that myth user does not have read permission to the
file. Try "chmod 644 <path to .avi file>" without the quotes.
That should allow any user on the system to view the file.<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span>
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